Newtown High School’s football team blanked visiting Pomperaug of Southbury 49-0, at Blue & Gold Stadium, on September 30. Andrew Swierbut scored three touchdow...
A Newtown High School student is hoping Newtown dog owners will share photos of their pet for dog-themed wall calendars, the proceeds from which will benefit Ne...
The Newtown High School Marching Band & Guard scored 80.5 in a Group Two Open competition at New Milford High School on September 24, earning the first-place sc...
The Newtown Knights of Columbus Run 4 Hunger & Health 5K to benefit the FAITH Food Pantry and Newtown Youth and Family Services, took place in Fairfield Hills o...
WINDSOR LOCKS — Four men including the late Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue Chief Bill Halstead were memorialized last Sunday afternoon during a brief but po...
The Care and Share Committee of Congregation Adath Israel of Newtown is marking the start of the new Fall season with a food drive to support food banks in Newt...
Anne Marie Foran will host her first Open Studio on Sunday, October 9, 1 to 4 pm, at her home studio, 44 Echo Valley Road in Newtown.
Displays will include orig...
The dispatchers at the Newtown Emergency Communications Center, at 191 South Main Street, report the following fire calls and the responders:
Wednesday, Sep...
Connecticut recently released its annual crime statistics report which, according to Newtown Police Chief David Kullgren, shows crime is down locally.
The repor...
The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will present Frank Bruckmann painting a landscape in oil on Wednesday, October 12. The free program will begin at...
I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!
Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.
The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).